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From: hoyt@bessie.alf.dec.com (Kurt Hoyt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Bug in DEC's C compiler(s)
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Date: 3 Jan 90 19:03:52 GMT
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In article <6-HQ+=@rpi.edu> kyriazis@herodotus.rdrc.rpi.edu.UUCP (George Kyriazis) writes:
>Last year I had the same problem with a uVAX II C compiler and I
>think it is a bug.  The program compiled fine on suns.  I got
>
>I wonder what DEC people have to say about that though..
>

Speaking unofficially...

It's not a bug. The current pcc-based compilers on Ultrix are K&R1, not K&R2.
I don't know when this will change. The VAX C for Ultrix compiler is ANSI-like
and will accept pointers to void (for those of you who don't mind using vcc).
I'm not privy to what the Ultrix compiler folks are up to, so I don't know
the when and/or ifs on ANSIfication.

Kurt Hoyt
Digital Equipment Corporation
hoyt@decatl.alf.dec.com
"Daddy, you not people, you a GUY! Mommy a girl." -- Faith Hoyt